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To anglicize. [R.]

To convert into English; to anglicize. Franklin. Darwin.

To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon.

The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor. [R.]

l into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize. He was blackballed at two clubs in succession. Thackeray.

marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary. [WordNet 1.5]

A coin; the Anglicized form of denarius. Udall.

An officer of the French customs. [Anglicized form douaneer.]

To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain. Those gracious acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation. Milton. Caxton does not care to alter the French forms and words in the book which he was Englishing. T. L. K. Oliphant.

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.

The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).

To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.

To relate as history; to chronicle; to historicize. [R.] Evelyn.

to publicize [e.g. a product or a future event] insistently, in a manner exaggerating the importance of; to promote flamboyantly. [wns=1] [WordNet 1.5]

pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence [Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail. -- To pick a quarrel, to give occasion of quarrel intentionally. -- To pick up. (a) To take up, as with the fingers. (b) To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there; as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick…

he feudal system, a samurai who had renounced his clan or who had been discharged or ostracized and had become a wanderer without a lord; an outcast; an outlaw.